About Quote by Alistair MacLeod

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain…

— Italo Calvino

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've…

— Kenneth Patchen

There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting what you love, and you should keep…

— Elif Batuman

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will…

— Arnold Bennett

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is…

— Ezra Pound

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

— Tucker Max

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

— Robert Metcalfe

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

— Rick Moody

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What…

— Susan Sontag

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

— Guo Moruo

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

— F. Sionil José